2023 Women's World Cup - 100 days to go until Australia and New Zealand co-host tournament

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Organisers of the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup, which starts successful 100 days, accidental they are connected people to merchantability a grounds 1.5 cardinal tickets.

Around 650,000 person been sold for the lawsuit successful Australia and New Zealand.

"Fifa's ngo is to organise the biggest and champion Women's World Cup successful past this year," said Fifa caput wide Fatma Samoura.

The World Cup, which features England and the Republic of Ireland, starts connected 20 July with the last connected 20 August.

As good arsenic targeting 1.5m tickets sales, organisers foretell the month-long tourney volition pull a planetary tv assemblage of 2 cardinal viewers.

Fifa anticipation much than 100,000 fans volition be the event's opening time overall, erstwhile New Zealand play 1995 winners Norway astatine the 50,000 capableness Eden Park successful Auckland - kick-off astatine 08:00 BST - and Australia look the Republic of Ireland astatine the 83,500 capableness Stadium Australia successful Sydney (11:00).

Australia's opening lucifer was primitively owed to beryllium played astatine Sydney Football Stadium, which holds 45,500 people, but has been moved to a bigger venue to conscionable the request for tickets.

The past signifier of summons income has conscionable started for what promises to beryllium different large milestone successful women's football.

'England should suffice from World Cup group'

'Best ever Women's World Cup'

This is the ninth variation of the Women's World Cup. The first tourney successful 1991 saw 12 teams vie successful China erstwhile the United States won the archetypal of their 4 satellite titles.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has predicted the 2023 variation volition beryllium the "best ever" aft it was expanded from 24 teams successful 2019.

Thirty-two countries volition vie implicit 64 matches astatine 10 antithetic venues crossed 9 cities successful Australia and New Zealand.

Eight teams are making their World Cup debuts - Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Vietnam, Philippines, Haiti, Panama, Zambia and Morocco.

Zambia - 77th successful the satellite - are the lowest ranked squad astatine the tournament. Denmark are making their archetypal World Cup quality for 16 years.

Seven teams are ever-presents having appeared astatine the erstwhile 8 tournaments - United States, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, Norway and Nigeria.

European champions England, who are making their sixth appearance, volition beryllium based successful Australia.

England matches graphic

The Lionesses motorboat their Group D run against Haiti successful Brisbane connected 22 July (10:30) earlier facing Denmark successful Sydney six days aboriginal (09:30) and China successful Adelaide connected 1 August (12:00).

The United States are looking to beryllium crowned satellite champions for the 3rd consecutive tourney aft successes successful Canada successful 2015 and successful France successful 2019. The fig 1 ranked squad successful the satellite volition beryllium based successful New Zealand for their Group E campaign.

They commencement against Vietnam successful Auckland connected 22 July (02:00) earlier travelling to Wellington to play the Netherlands successful a repetition of the 2019 last connected 27 July (02:00). The United States' last radical crippled is against Portugal successful Auckland connected 1 August (08:00).

Republic of Ireland brag Vera Pauw described her side's Group B run arsenic "tough" earlier adding: "This is what we've ever been striving for."

Republic of Ireland graphic

After facing Australia successful Sydney, the Republic conscionable Canada successful Perth connected 26 July (13:00) and past look Nigeria successful Brisbane connected 31 July (11:00).

'Tone deaf' - contention and tensions

This is the archetypal Women's World Cup to person much than 1 big but, 3 months earlier it starts, the tourney has already courted controversy.

Fifa has dropped plans for Saudi Arabia's tourism authorization to beryllium named arsenic an authoritative sponsor of the tourney pursuing disapproval from players and sponsors astir the projected deal.

World football's governing assemblage has besides been criticised for appointing supermodel Adriana Lima arsenic a planetary instrumentality ambassador.

Brazilian Lima volition "develop, beforehand and enactment successful planetary initiatives" earlier the World Cup. However, erstwhile Fifa assembly subordinate Moya Dodd described the assignment arsenic "tone deaf".

In addition, a newly-created qualifying tourney - with 10 teams flying to New Zealand for games to determine the last 3 places astatine the tourney - was labelled "unnecessary".

Ireland and Reading defender Diane Caldwell, who volition beryllium astatine her country's archetypal Women's World Cup, said: "I'm definite Fifa volition accidental they've done it to assistance the women's crippled grow.

"Of people we each privation the crippled to grow, but it tin beryllium done successful a sustainable mode and not by flying 10 teams from antithetic continents to New Zealand to compete. I deliberation decidedly it could person been avoided."

Meanwhile, respective teams person had their ain issues successful the build-up.

Canada, Spain and France person made headlines successful caller months arsenic disputes betwixt players and federations person escalated, though France's issues look to person been resolved with the assignment of a caller manager.

Former Brighton and England defender Fern Whelan from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said it was "worrying" determination was truthful overmuch turmoil successful planetary football, but the accelerated improvement of the crippled has brought issues to the forefront.

Haiti's playes observe qualifying for the 2023 Women's World Cup

Sixth World Cup?

Brazil's legendary guardant Marta, 37, could look successful her sixth successive World Cup.

She was 17 erstwhile she appeared astatine the 2003 variation successful the United States. Marta precocious returned from a superior genu wounded but missed Brazil's caller decision by England successful the archetypal Women's Finalissima.

Other players could besides diagnostic for a sixth time, including Canada's Christine Sinclair and Nigeria's Onome Ebi - who some crook 40 earlier the commencement of the tournament.

But determination could beryllium immoderate notable absentees successful Australia and New Zealand.

Spain could beryllium without a fig of cardinal players, as a stand-off continues betwixt 15 players and caput manager Jorge Vilda.

The Netherlands, the 2019 runners-up, are apt to beryllium without their Euro 2017-winning guardant Vivianne Miedema who had country successful December aft rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament.

Miedema's Arsenal team-mate Beth Mead, who scored six times to assistance England triumph Euro 2022, is besides likely to beryllium missing due to the fact that of injury.

"If a occurrence happens and she goes [through recovery] truthful fast, we volition reconsider it, but astatine this infinitesimal I don't expect that," England brag Sarina Wiegman said past month.

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